₦airaland Forum

Mariory:
To state that the location of defence academies translates to Nigeria being more susceptible to attack is rubbish. This is why I don't understand why you fellas what to blow this out of proportion. Are you going to only put Southerners in your new military academies down South?

That is a possibility. But I believe it is best to resurrect the best post on this topic so far, which unsurprisingly has gone unanswered. Would you like to tackle it? I can wait.

PapaBrowne:
What a sad mistake the arewa made. They assumed military rule will last forever and continue to weild immense political power.
While they were busy building military schools, southerners were sending their children to universities.
Today, the south owns the economy, industry, media, resource, and manpower.

And no it (The south) didn't stop there. It now owns political power plus its own private army to checkmate the northern military.

The good news though is that a new north is rising. A north that consists of progressives like El Rufai and Ribadu. A new north that thinks differently. A new north that cares about the hordes of Almajiris dotting the landscape. This new north would EMERGE and the old hegemonists can't stop it.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=481097.msg6405674#msg6405674 date=1279460024]how can it lead to civil war ? The joint task force are not going there to kill innocent citizens but attend to their primary responsibility which is anti-kidnapping.JTF to this day still have their operations in bayelsa,rivers,warri,akwa ibom and other places in the niger delta and there has not been any serious crisis that may result into civil war.[/quote]This is why Nigeria is on the list of failed states. In what developed country (even fellow African country) have you heard of the military being deployed to do police work?

Are you living on a different planet? JTF never solved any problems in the ND, indeed 14 of them where killed in one of their first operations and subsequent operations saw similarly high numbers bite the dust (or water), hence the bribery called amnesty, whereas, what we ask for is true federalism.
The problem in the East is very different and does not require more than the regular police; except that our police are as failed as the state called Nigeria is.

Every word that has dropped from Onovo's mouth since he became IG has been thoroughly disgraceful.
Perhaps, he should be arrested and investigated to see if his utterances are simply coded alerts for the benefit of the criminals.

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According to Newswatch security sources, because of the spiralling rate of crimes in the South Eastern states, a meeting was held in April this year to devise strategies to combat the menace. The meeting was chaired by Kayode Are, retired., colonel, and deputy national security adviser. Newswatch wasn’t privy to the decision taken at the meeting which lasted practically a whole day and was attended also by all the service chiefs. But observers believe there is no evidence to show that the strategies adopted at the meeting are working yet.

Kidnapping is a common law offence requiring “that one person takes and carries another person or a minor away by force or fraud, without the consent of the person taken; and without lawful excuse.” It would be difficult to kidnap without also committing false imprisonment, which is the common-law offence of intentionally or recklessly detaining the victim without lawful authority. The use of force to take and detain will also be regarded as an assault, and other related offences may also be committed before, during, or after the detention.

Out of desperation at tackling the rampant cases of kidnapping in their regions, a number of governors and state houses of assembly in the south-south and south-east have recommended death penalty for kidnappers. This is in spite of existing laws in the country that could adequately address the problem if implemented. Sections 31, 252, 310, 311, 330, 331, 364, 366-368, and 371 of the Criminal Code deal with different aspects of the issue, with Section 364 prescribing a punishment of 10 years imprisonment for anyone who is guilty of the felony of kidnapping.

President Goodluck Jonathan is not a poignant person prone to emotion-laden speeches. The few public speeches he has made since he became president can testify to that. But when asked to comment on the state of security situation in the country, especially the increasing rate of kidnapping in the South-eastern part, of the country during his maiden media chat, he was strangely emotional. “Any responsible leader should be worried about the state of security in the country, especially in the south-east; it is very embarrassing; it is unacceptable to us and we shall do everything within our means to confront the problems,” he said.

The president talked about the socio-economic and political implications of the crime situation saying, it was the only reason the nation lost the hosting right of the just concluded World Cup to South Africa. He said from the security report at his disposal, it was obvious that the crime of kidnapping is an organised one involving many persons or groups - the security agents, the judiciary, the banking sector and some lawyers. He asked: “I hope when we start arresting them, some professional bodies will not complain?” But since the president made that comment, what has he done to stem the tide? Not much.

The kidnap of the four journalists and the demand for a ransom of N250 million has brought to the fore the need for the security agencies in the country to be pro-active in dealing with the problem. During a debate on the issue on the floor of the Senate last week Wednesday, senators were categorical on the need to reform the entire security apparatus of the country. Many of them called for state or community police. They were of the view that if the police was decentralised, it would offer citizens the opportunity of knowing those entrusted with their security while the police will also know those they are serving.

David Mark, senate president, went a step further by calling for the declaration of a state of emergency in the South-East states in a bid to tackle kidnapping and armed robbery cases. He said the state governors do not necessarily have to be removed during the emergency period but for all efforts to be channelled at tackling the problem. At the end of deliberation on the issue, it was resolved that a national summit on kidnapping should be held to find a lasting solution to the problem.

Ogbonna Onovo, inspector-general of police, who has temporarily relocated to the South-East, said the police may have to embark on house to house search in order to rescue the kidnapped journalists. The IGP, who later met with traditional rulers pleaded with Ndigbo to stop giving the ethnic group a bad name. “If it is armed robbery we are there, when advanced fee fraud, also called 419 was rampant, we were in the forefront and now that kidnapping is reigning, we are also the main culprits,” he said.

Police sources, however, told Newswatch, Thursday, last week, that they had located the radius within which the kidnappers were holding the journalists but that it could be dangerous to storm the area. Nigeria and some international organisation, have been reacting to the recent kidnap of journalists.

Ajibola Ogunshola, president, Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN, said the police must live up to its responsibilities of protecting lives and property in the country. In a statement issued in Lagos, last week, Ogunshola said the kidnap of the four journalists and their driver had again highlighted the ineffectual and grossly incompetent state of the systems responsible for securing lives and property in the country. “Let no one deceive himself by continuing to imagine, let alone hope, that we can solve the problem of kidnapping, robberies and other related crimes without a wholesome overhaul of the police system, especially its cumbersome central command structure,” he said, adding “a police system that is not based on adequate knowledge of the social dynamics of its operating locale cannot provide the appropriate response to the complexities of present day’s crimes.”

Ogunshola said there can be no greater evidence of the impunity with which kidnapping is executed and its exponential growth rate than the drama of the current episode. “What is particularly frightening, and which should be of great concern to all of us, is not only the regularity of the occurrence of high-profile kidnapping and the monetary extortion in the name of ransoms that follow, but the evidently helpless response of the security agencies to curbing the crime. We need to inquire, once again, about the capacity and present structure of the nation’s policing system to effectively rise to such challenges, especially in the context of crime prevention.”

International Press Agency, IPA, and Journalists Without Borders, JWB, also urged President Jonathan to ensure the safety and immediate release of Oba and his colleagues. Michael Holmes, co-ordinator of JWB, noted that “the political climate in Nigeria, had become too temperate and worrisome. He called on those in authority in Nigeria, to provide adequate security in the country, especially to media practitioners. “Just as we sympathise with you, Mr President and the people of Nigeria, over this unfortunate and criminal act, it is very necessary that media men are protected in the course of discharging their legitimate jobs.”

James Bernard of the IPA described kidnapping as a heinous crime, something close to terrorism. He said the activities of the kidnappers would definitely hinder the development of the country. “It is usually difficult for any country to progress or advance when a crime of kidnapping reigns in a particular country,” he said.

Bernard said Jonathan must ensure that the journalists were not harmed and were speedily released. “We would implore the president to discourage this unholy act by resisting the temptation of negotiating ransom with these criminals as such is capable of emboldening the criminals to continue in the crime.”

Lakin Akintola, director, Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has also condemned the kidnap of the journalists and called for their unconditional release. Tom Ohikere, Kogi State commissioner for Information, has also indicted the police for not living up to its responsibilities of securing lives and property of the citizens. He said the police must rise to the occasion and save its name, adding that “the spate of kidnapping in the country is a tacit indictment of the police.”

While making reference to the kidnap of Lulu’s mother, which he described as an infiltration of the evil wind into Kogi State, he urged the state police command to nip the ugly trend in the bud



Reported by Ishaya Ibrahim

http://www.newswatchngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2267&Itemid=1

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Kidnapping and other violent crimes are now daily occurrences in Nigeria. Prominent Nigerians from the South-South and South-East regions no longer visit home for fear of being kidnapped or attacked by armedl robbers. Many rich ones living in those regions have relocated elsewhere for fear of being abducted for a ransom. But the malady is no longer restricted to those two regions as it has spread to all parts of the country.

As at 1999, kidnapping for ransom was not yet such a big problem in Nigeria. There were a few reported cases of  kidnapping for ritual particularly during election periods. Nigerians in the South-West have always talked about how human parts are used for money-making rituals or to acquire spiritual power, or the social menace of child theft, known as Gbomogbomo, (child kidnapping). By 2003, with increased agitation in the Niger Delta, militant groups in the area such as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, and other groups had begun to kidnap oil company workers, particularly foreigners  in order to press home their points about a re-negotiation of Nigeria and the Niger Delta stake in it. Then, the kidnappers concentrated mainly on expatriate workers of multi-national oil corporations. And for many years, these militants kidnapped foreign national from the United States of America, Europe, Asia and other parts of the world that provide the bulk of highly skilled manpower in the oil industries.

Usually, the kidnappers would swoop on their victims wherever they were found: oil rigs, streets, nightclubs, hotels and other public places. Each success case of kidnapping was usually sensationalised in such a way that it would attract media world wide, creating panic and fear in the families and home countries of the hostages.

The activities of these militants were further bolstered by the governments of the regions who were involved in securing the releases and were also believed to have provided funds where necessary to sell ransoms demanded by the kidnappers.

The floodgate of kidnapping activities opened on January 12, 2006, MEND, captured Patrick Landry, a US indigene; Nigel Watson-Clark, a Briton; Harry Ebanks, from Honduras and Pat Crawley, a Bulgarian, at a Shell platform in Ekeremor local government area of Bayelsa State. For three weeks, all efforts to secure their release proved abortive as MEND refused to budge. During the agonising period the military, in an attempt to forcefully secure the release of the captured oil workers lost 14 soldiers who were killed by the militants.

In subsequent abduction cases, for fear of losing their staff, many oil companies began to pay ransom. Senior government officials began to act as negotiators while lawyers and other businessmen quickly moved in to be part of big business. A big business enterprise began to flourish. While the oil companies paid huge sums of money for the release of their men, a token of that sum eventually got to the militants while the rest ended in the pockets of government officials and middlemen that facilitated the deal.

In 2006 alone, 72 foreigners, among them four Germans, and 56 Nigerians were kidnapped. Between January and March 2007, 57 foreigners and 10 Nigerians were held by kidnappers while at least 15 people were killed. What was adopted initially as a tool of ideological struggle has since become a major business enterprise. After the militants stopped kidnappings, the illegal practice was hijacked  by criminal elements whose primary objective is money. Known armed robbers and other felons have now fully turned to kidnapping where they are guaranteed bigger returns. Kidnapping is also less risky than robbery.

The worrisome trend has put Nigeria in the global survey of terrorism and hostage-taking. In 2008, Nigeria was listed as number six among the 10 worst countries in the world where people could be easily kidnapped. Castle Rock Global Corporation, a licenced international insurance agency, did the classification. Others countries listed were Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, The Philippines, Chechnya region of Russia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Haiti. The report also said kidnappings were rampant in India, South Africa, Argentina and Nepal.

The weakness of the security agencies has not helped matters. Criminal elements routinely take the laws into their hands knowing that the state and its institutions are inefficient. The kidnappers are so bold; they have no regard for the law. The more frightening thing is that Nigeria is also beginning to breed its own gang of psychopaths. Kidnappers, according to those who have encountered them, are heavily into drugs and alcohol. They wield dangerous weapons which they threaten to use at the slightest provocation. They humiliate and assault their victims. Small arms proliferation and the inability of the police and other security agencies to check Nigeria’s gradual transformation from a drug-courier country into a drug-using country highlight the tragic dimensions of the affair.

Most tragic for the nation, however, is the involvement of security men particularly police officers in aiding and abetting criminal elements in the country. Newswatch sources said at the first meeting General Aliyu Gusau, national security adviser, NSA, held with the service chiefs, including the IGP, he was shocked by the admission of the IGP about the rot in the police. According to an Aso Rock source, the IGP confessed that some of his men were aiding and abetting criminal elements, particularly in the rampant kidnapping cases in the South-East.

The police boss hinted on the collusion of his men with criminal elements last week, while giving the kidnappers of the four journalists and their driver, a 24-hour ultimatum for their release. He transferred the Area Commander of Police and Divisional Police Officer in Aba, and moved in neutral officers to handle the case.

http://www.newswatchngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2267&Itemid=1

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But a distraught Lulu, who is still licking the wounds of losing his plum jobs as NFF president after the Super Eagles’ first round knockout at the just concluded 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, has been pleading with the kidnappers to release his mum without any success. He said he was not in a position to raise the ransom. “Where am I going to get such money from,” Lulu was quoted as telling the kidnappers. He was also reported to have told them that all the stories they might have read about him making so much money from the NFF were concocted by his adversaries. As at press time last week, Thursday, the aged woman had not been released.

But for providence, Ado Bayero, the Emir of Kano, would have been killed July 9. The septuagenarian traditional ruler escaped assassination by a lone gunman who attempted to kill him during the Muslim Juma’at prayer in the ancient city. The suspect, 19-year-old Usman Musa, who lives in Doraji Quarters in Kano metropolis was, however, apprehended by the police before carrying out the act. Also arrested was one Abubakar Batakaye who allegedly asked Musa to carry out the act. Musa claimed he was sent by Batakaye to kill the emir.

Across the country, the state of insecurity is getting worse. Recently, assassins visited the residence of Gbemisola Saraki, a senator, in Abuja. But the federal legislator was lucky. She had travelled out of the country earlier. Her aide, Gani Galadima, said the men, about eight in number, held all the occupants of the home hostage. They locked up her guards and other staff in the boys’ quarters, seized their mobile telephones before proceeding to the main building. They searched for her in all of the rooms and returned to the boys’ quarters to question the staff on her whereabouts.

When their search did not yield fruit one of the invaders called someone on his mobile handset and lamented that they could not find her. Unknown to them, Saraki had travelled to the United States of America, USA, three days earlier. Before Saraki travelled. She had received a text message threatening to kill her and her father, Olusola who lives in Ilorin. She reported the threat to the State Security Services, SSS, before she embarked on the trip. The mission of the gunmen had nothing to do with robbery as they left the home without taking anything. Almost a month after the incident, nobody had been arrested in connection with the assassination attempt.

About eight months ago, a prominent chief in Anambra State and the owner of a major trading company with headquarters in Onithsha, was abducted by kidnappers. The kidnappers demanded a ransom of N25 million which he paid before being released. Prior to his release, he had told the kidnappers that he did not have such an amount of money in his account. But the kidnappers reeled out addresses of all the houses he owns in Onitsha and the United Kingdom, UK. Because the victim refused to co-operate initially, he was shot in the leg to show him how serious they were. The chief was admitted in hospital for one month after he was released by the kidnappers. He had been held for five days by the kidnappers. Peter Obi, governor of Anambra State, waded in before he was finally released.

In Benin, the Edo State capital, a female official of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital was also seized recently. The kidnappers seized her ATM card and withdrew all the money in her account after forcefully obtaining her pin number. Before she was released, her husband also had to pay N1 million as ransom.

While most of the kidnappers are involved in the shady business due to poverty, some are in the kidnapping business because of their insatiable desire to acquire wealth. There was the case of Omotayo Mobolaji Johnson, a geologist and staff of Chevron PLC, who was arrested by the police in connection with the attempt to kidnap a bank executive based in Lagos. Despite the fact that Johnson earns N1.2 million monthly, he still masterminded the kidnap which was smashed by the Lagos State Police Command. Two middle-aged suspects, Tommy Ebikeme and Edward Anigbhoro, who were Johnson’s accomplices, were also arrested.

http://www.newswatchngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2267&Itemid=1

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Written by Kazeem Akintunde     
Sunday, 18 July 2010 
The state of insecurity in Nigeria gets worse as kidnapping and other forms of violent crimes grow

The experience of having a loved one kidnapped is indeed tormenting. For the wives of the journalists, who were kidnapped in Abia State, Sunday, July 11, nothing could be worse than that. Visitors to the homes of the four newsmen at the Journalists’ Estate, Arepo, Ogun State, Wednesday, last week, were often struck by the depressed mood of their wives.

Barakat, wife of Wahab Alabi Oba, chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Lagos State Council, managed to tell Newswatch on Tuesday, July 13, “Please help us pray. That is all I can say. I want them to release my husband.”

Christiana, wife of Sylva Okereke, acting secretary of the NUJ, Lagos Council, wished that all of the things happening to her were just a dream and that the kidnap saga never happened. “We want your prayers. These four days is just like 1000 days. I just want to see my husband again,” she said.

In the house of Adolphus Okonkwo, Antonia, his wife, was also visibly depressed. After four days of waiting, the news was still not consoling and so she was pained that the kidnappers had, as at press time, not released her husband. “I am appealing to the kidnappers to please in the name of God release them,” she said, while also advising government to take adequate measures to stem kidnapping before the situation gets out of hand.

More worrisome was that since the unfortunate kidnap of their father, Okonkwo’s children have refused to eat. “It is not as if we do not have food at home, but the kids simply refused to eat. They have lost their appetite and there is tension in the house now,” the wife said.

Oba, Okonkwo, Okereke, Sola Oyeyipo and Azeez Abdulrauf, their driver, were kidnapped at Umuafor Ukwu, Obingwa local government area of Abia State while on their way to Lagos after attending a national executive council, NEC, meeting of the NUJ in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The kidnappers demanded a ransom of N250 million. Since then, Nigerian journalists have become prayer warriors seeking God’s intervention in the search for freedom for the five men. On Wednesday, July 14, they organised special prayer sessions at the journalists’ estate. The supplicants, both Christians and Muslims, prayed fervently for the quick release of their colleagues. They, thereafter, dispersed with the belief that in no distant time, their prayers would be answered.

At one of the sessions held at the Catholic Church of Transfiguration, Arepo, Ogun State, Reverend Father David Akala, encouraged the congregation to pray ceaselessly. He reminded the church how God delivered Paul and Silas in such similar condition and would still do so in this case. He said the abduction of the journalists was a clear indication that things were not going the way it should in the country.

The clergyman is right. Security of lives and property in Nigeria, today, is very precarious. Nigeria is gradually turning into a jungle where anything goes. Kidnapping for ransom is now a big enterprise in the country, the South-East in particular. Twenty-four hours after the four journalists were kidnapped, another set of kidnappers struck in Idah, Kogi State and abducted Laruba, mother of Sani Lulu Abdullahi, former president of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF. The octogenarian was abducted at gunpoint from her family house. The kidnappers then contacted her son and demanded N200 million for her release.

http://www.newswatchngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2267&Itemid=1

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=481097.msg6405512#msg6405512 date=1279456489]you mean in iboland ?[/quote]Abeg, kidnapping is happening everywhere; in the North, South, East and West. Something is going wrong with the country, it is wiser to address that.

Donpuzo:
I mostly use MVC for JSP applications! And also have a good Architecture i use while coding PHP in an Object Oriented Manner!

Speaking of C# i heard it is about the best language for Game development, thinking of developing some games, Is that true

C# is the best in almost every way, there is certainly nothing in PHP that can be compared to C# (dump it at the gate).
I am not a games dev, but from experience, there is nothing that nears C# on the .NET platform when it comes to RAD. You can prototype and deliver games several times faster than with C++ (some experts put it at up to 6 times faster). It also exposes much less laborious ways of GPGPU natively.
A downside is that your code might be open to all to view (except you get a native compiler or wrapper). You might also give a little away in terms of raw performance (although C# is generally as fast and can be faster than C++ under rare conditions). C# will do everything from robotics, to games, medical graphics, to desktop, to web, to embedded (provided there's enough memory).

The Abia Kidnappers in South-East Nigeria have voluntarily released the four abducted journalists and their driver after a week in captivity and demanded for Special Amnesty similar to the amnesty granted to Niger Delta Militants of South-South of the country to dissuade them from further criminal activities in the region.

Rubbish.

Only recently the kidnapping phenomena that has been rampant in the Southern part of the country was recorded in the North where a Kano-based businessman, Alhaji Salisu Mataba, was kidnapped in his residence and had to pay his abductors N80 million before he regained freedom. The negotiation was coordinated by the family of the businessman who acted on the instruction of the kidnappers without involving the police for any rescue effort.

Will Northern kidnappers soon ask for amnesty too?
Our fake federal system is a failure. If we had true federalism, things like this would never happen. We need to look at the root causes of the rampant criminality seizing our youthful population.

What is happening in this country?

mbulela:
Either i don't get your point or you are missing mine.
the political leadership is the major problem.
if we have a leadership that matches action with words, knows no sacred cows and strengthens institutions to be effective, most of this problems will fall in place.the matter is that it pays the political leadership to maintain the status quo.And Jonathan is no different.
if we had effective leadership at the top,we will not even be discussing onovo matter, as the inept tool would have long thrown in the towel.
Beaf, there will be blood.
There is no easy way out.
We have gone too far.
either the blood will be shed over credible elections (my worry is that the definition of a credible election is a highly politicized one) or afterwards.

The political leadership is only the symtom of deeper structural problems. You can't cure malaria by attacking the headache only. Until the underlying structure is changed, we will continue to have bad govt.
Also, there is very little the man at the top can do except introduce incremental changes no matter how saintly he is. Why? Like I said earlier, our fake federal system is upside down and govt at any level is not accountable to anyone. No matter how powerful the person at the top is, those below him will not give up the perks they get from being unaccountable; our lawmakers (Senators and House) are among the highest paid politicians in the World; the reason they are paid so much is to keep quiet and maintain the status quo. The enemy is a multi-faceted elephant.

Our political system is best changed with wisdom, let us first get credible elections and be ready to spill blood for that purpose. With credible elections will come credible leaders who are accountable. Anything else will be a waste of valuable energy.
There might be blood, but it would be wasted if the people do not understand the enemy they are fighting.

Can someone in the area, please post a very clear picture that captures both the road and the sign? It would be a deafening description of Nigerian politicians.

The Nigerian press is sinking to lower lows. What a useless article! The title is totally missleading and has nothing to do with the content.
I always avoid sunnnewsonline, ; Iboris paper, daily indepent etc. They can wreck the thinking brain.

Stagger elections over six weeks?
Thats surely inviting trouble.

If a party that means to rig learns how badly it has done in an earlier leg, there will be near war in areas with later dates. Will Jega stop their seasoned thugs with his big chest?

Option A4 is the only solution until we introduce proper technology.

[quote author=na2day! link=topic=481100.msg6405157#msg6405157 date=1279447666]one more is needed. . .
a detachment of soldiers to every polling booth with SHOOT TO KILL ORDER against any form of ballot box hijacking or rigging![/quote]That will only be a new way to summarise political opponents. And of course, the soldiers can simply cart off and stuff the ballot boxes themselves.
If we want to do things properly, we must think them through properly and avoid including the army in areas that don't concern it. We are a democracy; the days of military lawlessness should be behind us.

mbulela:
the crux of the matter.
I think it is because the system sets up the society to have such police.
the police job is a very corruptible job every where in the world.
Ours is most decadent and exceedingly corrupt because we have a system that makes it flourish.
in other climes, the system makes it very difficult to get away with corruption and even makes it unattractive to pursue corrupt tendencies.
i am not convinced that the average Nigerian (including police men) are inherently more corrupt than their colleagues elsewhere.
In a system where you know you can get away with anything, you know that as long as it is a government job mediocrity and ineptitude is expected and often celebrated, in such a system you get the kind of police we have.
Until we have a political leadership that decides to bulk the trend and match action with words, we are doomed.
changing IG is a cosmetic solution which i support but the root cause goes way deeper.
I said elsewhere and i still hold that view that the police officers are not more corrupt than most Nigerians,the fact is just that being law enforcers, they have more opportunities and being the enforcers have the liberty to get away with almost anything.When you then factor in the illiteracy in the force, you have a potent mix.

The above could not be farther from the crux of the matter. Neither is the political leadership to blame.
You've got it upside down and are begging the topic; if the problem is the system, how can you blame the political leadership? The "leaders" operate within a flawed architecture.

Let us all make it a point to emphasise true federalism as the only workable architecture for Nigeria (or we separate). With true federalism, we will have accountability. With the present system, your state gov is accountable to Abuja, not to you; so he doesn't care what you say or think. The policeman on the street is accountable to the IG, so he doesn't give a toss about your thoughts on "roger". We run an upside down system that was deliberately designed for corruption; lets blame our fake "federalism" or we'll end wasting energy screaming into the wind.

What every consensious and thinking Nigerian must do, is keep hammering credible elections as our only way forward. We should be ready to burn, protest and make sure it is delivered. Credible elections are our only hope of changing Nigerias architecture bloodlessly.

[size=14pt]GJ goes after Yar'Adua cabal [/size]
By Elor Nkereuwem and Idris Akinbajo
July 17, 2010 10:05PM

Mustapha Onoyvieta, the army colonel that was an Aide de Camp, (ADC) to late President Yar'Adua has been ordered back from his command training to face a probe for the role he played in events during the illness of the late president.

Sources close to the Presidency say Goodluck Jonathan has finally bowed to pressure and a probe has been instituted into the activities of Mr. Onoyvieta and other aides of the late president.

At least four of these aides are reported to be under investigation.

Apart from Mr.Onoyvieta, the late president's Chief Security Officer (CSO), Yusuf Tilde; the former commander of the Presidential Air Fleet (PAF), Aminu Adamu; the former administrative officer at the Presidency, Muhammeed Dodo, are all apparently being queried.

The probe is going to centre on disregard for superior authority, deliberate hoarding of information and misinformation pertaining to the health status of the late president, and misappropriation of funds.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Politics/5595258-146/story.csp

IBB is a demon.

Onovo's only achievement is the delivery of a new police uniform for senior officers.

Mariory:
Why didn't the thread starter post any Naval schools? I smell tribal insecurity.

Naval cadets are trained at NDA in Zaria, Kaduna state. http://nigeriandefenceacademy.edu.ng/navy.htm#nw

Or do you mean schools like?
[list]
[li]Nigerian Navy Secondary School - Abeokuta[/li]
[li]Nigerian Navy Secondary School - Port Harcourt[/li]
[/list]

sjeezy8:
get off my dik you gay - OBVIOUSLY SCHOOLS IN THE SOUTH OUTNUMBER THOSE IN THE NORTH. core north at that.

not to mention half the uni you mentioned are in the middle belt.

Middle Belt? Where do you think Zaria is? Where do you think Niger state is? Check the article at the top of the page for the reason I have asked these questions and your stup!dity will fairly jump at you. Olodo.

sjeezy8:
ok but how many unis are in the north- aside from ahmadu bello university . . .

so whos really being short changed in Nigeria?

Laughable.

sjeezy8:
ok but how many unis are in the north- aside from ahmadu bello university . . .

so whos really being short changed in Nigeria?

Foolishness.
You should really keep to topics that are within your grasp.

ABTI - American University of Nigeria Yola
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi
Adamawa State University Yola
Ahmadu Bello University ZariaKaduna State
Al Hikmah University Ilorin Kwara State
Bayero University Kano Kano State
Benue State University Makurdi, Benue State
Bingham University New Karu, Nassarawa State
Bukar Abba Ibrahim University Damaturu, Yobe State
Catholic University of Nigeria Abuja
City University of Technology Kaduna
Federal University of Technology Minna
Federal University of Technology Yola
Ibraheem Babangida University Lapai
Kaduna State University Kaduna Kaduna State
Kano State University of Technology Wudil
Kogi State University Ayigba Kogi State
Kwara State University Malete Kwara State
Federal Polytechnic birnin kebbi
Nasarawa State University Keffi
Nigerian Defence Academy Kaduna
Kebbi State university of technology aliero
Salem University Lokoja Kogi State
University of Abuja Gwagwalada
University of Agriculture, Makurdi Makurdi, Benue State
University of Jos Jos
University of Maiduguri Maiduguri
University of Mkar Mkar-Gboko, Benue State

javalord:
TO answer your question i will say YES! We have lots of C# developers in nigeria.

am one and most of my friends do C#. In the company where i work(telecoms) we develop VAS Solutions, web services, custom modules for DotNetNuke(cms) using C#.

Impressive. Are the DNN modules for websites or intranets?

richy101:
BEAF have an idea of the new asp.net mvc2 (Model View Controller)?
its a great feature added to the asp.net platform. if you are more
of a web app developer you should try this new tech.

For a long time, I've run away from MVC because of the bitter days of Classic ASP days of spaghetti code. But lately, I've begun to give it a serious rethink and actually learn it, because I spend so much time writing composite controls that do what MVC is designed from the ground up to do. My efforts pale compared to the MVC framework . Yeah, so thumbs up for MVC.

Like I said earlier, we need a Ribadu to totally uproot the police leadership, Onovo, his deputies and their equivalents at state level. replace the bunch of clowns with graduates and forward looking people more attuned to todays World and committed to the future of the country.
The same should happen to the EFCC.

Thats the job I suggest the Presidency gives Ribadu without blinking an eye.

Promise fulfilled? Its funny in a tragic way.
The guy should be shot.

What are you talking about?

[list]
[li]The amount of rainfall in the South does not suit military schools[/li]
[li]Southern terrain does not suit military schools[/li]
[li]Southern culture does not suit military schools[/li]
[li]The Southern mindset does not suit military schools[/li]
[li]Putting military schools in the South will stop normal Southerners getting a normal education[/li]
[/list]

Bring a man like Ribadu to totally redesign and shake up the system. Then replace Onovo.

olly pass:
"When all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail".

At 4-play and paddy lo: what are the both of you doing?almost every thread on finance matters is being hijacked by the both of you and what is the prize you are both fighting for? Nobel for economics? I really have a preference for such threads that have the potential to add value to Nigerians and policy makers as opposed to stuffs like "what do you think bout mercy johnsons latest lip stick colour?" but the way you both are going bout your arguments makes those who are not "gurus" lose intrest in the thread, then before you realize the only person still following you guys is probably beef(who i guess is re-filling his glass as i type)
Both of you are like two parallel lines and will continue to quote links from BBC to CNN just to prove his point and show the other a charlatan and in the process we lose track of the original argument which primarily is about our 7% growth and if there is a possibility the figures were cooked.

I Really would love to call a truce cos the both of you are no doubt some of the brightest minds (on finance) as far as this forum goes but you should be able to translate that knowledge into empowering the rest of us with constructive easy-to-understand-for-a-lay-man suuugestions, not loose us in endless statistics that is just aimed at proving the other is a quack (which you both stayed up all night [Nigerian time] trying to do).
Thank you for your time. (beef, make me glass while you at it)

Waiter, please bring one more sit to the house! Abeg, chill wit dat odeku dia.
There is indeed a lot of value in the ongoing arguement. We keep hearing figures that don't seem to make sense or translate into benefits on the street, maybe we can actually get a feel for where the money is, if there is actually truth in the tremendous growth figures being bandied about or if the growth is strictly tied to oil; so benefits might only be felt by foreign oil companies, far from our shores.
Does agriculture actually provide 42% of our GDP? Is that possible? Where do we get our figures when we have no institutions or reliable statistics in the country? So many questions. . . The BBC-CNN references will help dissolve the "grammatic" aura around the science used to sell us these figures. In Warri parlance, "niked de question" (strip the question unclothed).